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Mike
@wombat_combat
Aggressively reasonable Everton supporter. Vinyl, Craft Beer, Natural Wine, Democratic Socialism, Urbanism. Rescue🐕: 감자 🥔
Jackson Heights, Queens Beigetreten Kasım 2008
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Hey, whoever is running the thie account, I need you to knock this shit off. Stop nostalgiaposting for the bygone days of indiscriminate drone strikes and persecuting whistleblowers that paved the way for the exact moment we are in. FFS, one of the last things Obama did was expand the surveillance powers of the presidency literally days before Trump was sworn in. Stop pretending it was bunny rabbits and rainbows and get real about the fascist threat we're facing now.
Democrats@TheDemocrats
Better times at the White House.
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cannot be overstated how much the biden policy of "Nothing will fundamentally change" was the one and only plank they held to and led us here. Merrick Garland having no spine or being told not to is the sole feckless pivot that doomed the world
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I continue to think the degree to which capitalists are ideologically captured and have just generally had their brains cooked by hegemony is extremely underrated in the twenty-first century. They are not rational stewards of their own material interests
trans judeo-bolshevik@transjewtalian
it is admittedly interesting how little pushback there has been from capital to trump given how much he’s clearly destroying their interests i’ve long believed that was the only mechanism that could meaningfully make him reverse course but clearly in this case its not
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I grew up in Manhattan and therefore outrank this person in the Real New Yorker chain of command. Feel free to disregard this unauthorized communication and continue to move to the # 1 city.
Colleen Wanglund 💜🦋📚✍️@SweetColleen
My dad grew up in the Rockaways. My mom grew up in Queens. I love this city. I hate what is happening to it. Transplants will be the death of NYC.
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My dad grew up in the Rockaways. My mom grew up in Queens. I love this city. I hate what is happening to it. Transplants will be the death of NYC.
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Mike retweetet
Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker
The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment
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It really is wild to have lived through four years of reporters staking out grocery store parking lots and never shutting the fuck up about the price of eggs go radio silent on gas prices going up like 40% in six weeks directly b/c Trump attacked Iran.
Kathy Jones@KathyJones
Florida gas prices.
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Just a few months ago, @ezraklein called on Democrats to abandon reproductive rights, @mattyglesias called for Democrats to join Republicans in bullying trans kids, and many more in the Vox/Faux DC Centrism orbit called on Democrats to acquiesce in Trump's mass deportation schemes in order to "do what's popular" and "win elections." Following these recommendations would certainly have made the Democratic Party “a little more hateful, a little more misogynistic, a little more vulgar, and a little dumber” — but no one who has clutched their pearls over Hasan Piker in the last two weeks ever voiced any concerns about these leading lights of DC centrism when they pushed these reactionary positions. What gives?
Considering @hasanthehun has never pushed the Democratic Party to adopt such wacko positions, he seems much better than Ezra Klein, Yglesias, and other Faux DC Centrists at keeping the Democratic Party "on the right side of history." I mean, if we win by throwing people under the bus as recommended by these amoral think-piece writers, would it even be worth it? What kind of victory would that even be?
Evan Rosenfeld@Evan_Rosenfeld
.@monacharen: Even if it were true that Dems would profit electorally by becoming a little more hateful, a little more misogynistic, a little friendlier to America’s authoritarian antagonists, a little more vulgar, and a little dumber—is it worth it? What kind of victory is that?
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Reminder as a Trump puts out unhinged statements threatening to obliterate Iran’s existence, that the head of the so-called opposition party antagonized Trump for not being hard enough on Iran. Yet liberals will still blame Gaza protesters for Trump’s win
Chuck Schumer@SenSchumer
If TACO Trump is already folding on Iran, the American people need to know about it. No side deals.
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@Lee_in_Iowa Boomers never refinanced their double digit mortgages. Never. Not once. Impossible.
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Boomer here. I bought my first house after ten years of saving like crazy. And the interest was 14.5%.
I don’t know where kids got the idea that they were due a house and new car at college graduation, but that’s NOT how it ever was.
heretical lakeloon@loonlake55
Too many young people are resenting Boomers, claiming that Boomers had it " easy " financially in their youth. Here are a few fun facts about growing up Boomer. 1. Almost everyone grew up with one bathroom. Mom, Dad and all 3-6 siblings. 2. If you did get to take a vacation, you drove. With no air conditioning. No cup holders. No iPads. Just black vinyl seats and bologna sandwiches. 3. There were no club sports. No Parks and Rec activities. Summer camp was for rich kids. Get yourself a bike, a stick and a few friends. If you were bored, you laid in the grass and looked at clouds. 4. You ate what was served. Even if it was chicken livers. No DoorDash, no backup Totino's rolls. 5. No AP classes, no PSEO, no "fun" elective. They assigned you to a class. You went. You did what they asked. Or else. 6. Unless you had rich parents, you had a nice VFW wedding. Maybe rent a room at a modest hotel. 7. Most Boomers got their first pedi and mani in their 50s (when their feet got farther away). We didn't even know people got massages in real life, only in Hollywood. 8. You packed your own lunch for decades. 9. No one knew what red light therapy was, a facial, a spa day, or a cold plunge. Your gym was the YMCA. Usually in a rather old building. 10. We grew up with 18 percent inflation, 14 percent mortgage rates, 3 million continuing unemployment claims, and 200 other applicants competing for the same job. Now, this is not to say Millenials and Gen Z have it easy or don't face problems. It's just to say, nobody has it easy or doesn't face problems. My only hope, as my mom would say, is I live long enough to see my kids' kids complain about how easy they had it!
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Democrats could position themselves as the ones ending this historically unpopular war. They could force war powers vote after war powers vote. They’re choosing not to
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
On iran talks —Iranians seem to want Congress involved: The Omani Foreign Ministry has confirmed talks with Iran about reopening the strait. Mr. Mousawi, who was briefed on the plan, added that it called for formally ending the war through an act approved by Congress, and that it called on the United States to offer war compensation that “must be approved by the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.” “These conditions would have to be approved by Congress, and ensuring their implementation must be guaranteed under an international-American umbrella, because they do not trust Trump and his administration,” he said. nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/… via @NYTimes
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god I hate this faux populist bullshit. K-12 is also free for rich people, as are public parks, the fire dept, libraries etc. Study after study shows means testing is the quickest way to gut programs for the rich AND the poor because it erodes the public base of support.
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My problem with the “he wouldn’t actually do it” and “institutional checks would step in to stop him” arguments regarding any of Trump’s unhinged threats is that we are in this position precisely because, at every prior stage, he did do it and nobody stepped in to stop him.
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Europeans, after a four day weekend, reading about just how absolutely furious America is with them.
Harold__Finch@HaroldWren22
Most Europeans have no idea how absolutely furious with Europe America is. This is not just another disagreement. Betrayal is not something you just let slide. And the mouthy responses from Europeans are pouring gas on that fire. They have misjudged the situation gravely & it will have grave consequences for Europe— economically AND militarily.
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“The forty-hour work week was extracted from capital by people willing to be shot at, imprisoned, and charged with treason. The Wagner Act was not a gift from an enlightened capital class: it was rammed through Congress while factory owners hired private armies to shoot their own employees. Social Security was not a consensus position but a minimum concession that capital could offer to prevent armed revolution. The trust busters were not convened by Standard Oil and given grants. They were sent by a government that had watched Standard Oil buy state legislators and decided that if they did not act, the Republic would fall.
When OpenAI invokes this history, it is invoking a process in which it would have been the target -- whether it knows it or not.”
Will Manidis@WillManidis
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@tcambanis @DougJBalloon Yes. Pretending to worry about the rich getting undue benefit from social programs is one of the pundit class’ favorite way to kill social programs. On behalf of their patrons…. the rich.
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Should rich kids be allowed to go to public schools? Should we means-test libraries? Is it fair that rich people and poor people drive on the same streets? Do we live in society? My latest for nyt…
Thanassis Cambanis@tcambanis
Is Mamdani really a socialist if his universal benefits also help Upper East siders? nytimes.com/2026/03/31/nyr… I thought this was by @DougJBalloon
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Rent is not supposed to be 30% of your income.
30% was the cut-off used to determine if someone was low-income/living in poverty; we weren't supposed to surpass it.
Today they've normalized everyone living in extreme poverty.
kenya the podcaster ✨@KenyaTheHunter
The responses to this tweet show that we have gotten way too accustomed to the housing crisis! Rent is supposed to be about 30% of your income. About half of Americans are paying more than that.
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"We would be able to totally obliterate them." Word for word Trump. Yet millions of liberals genuinely think this woman was somehow the only thing standing between 'democracy' and barbarity
𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦@Malcolm_Pal9
A resurfaced clip of Hillary Clinton from 2008 is circulating online in which she says, "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran."
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He makes filling potholes look easy. And governing look easy. Remember when candidates were asked which country they’d visit first and they all said Israel and Mamdani said uh I’ll be taking care of constituents in New York because that’s what the job is for. There you go. Stop voting for candidates beholden to Israel.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Beautiful day to fill the 100,000th pothole of the year.
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